anyone with a turtle can't be a bad person

So, at the end of this month, I have an Italiano coming to stay with me. Said Italiano (also known as Carola) seems very lovely and I hope she is a nice person as she has to share my room. There are many complication with sharing a room with an utter stranger. There's the possibility that said stranger will sleep-talk, sleep-walk, sleep-cry, sleep-burp (I'VE SEEN IT HAPPEN), but by far the most irritating sleep related ailment is sleep, or just bedtime, farting. A friend who shall remain nameless has a delightful habit of ringing me a ridiculous times in the morning to demonstrate this particular variety of sleep-related quirk. Yes, thats right, I have a friend who rings me purely to fart down the phone. I refuse to discuss this further.

In conversation with my friend Andy today, I made it quite clear how stressed I was. The reasons for my stresses are numerous and dull, but Andy made a comment that stuck with me. "The more you worry the bigger the worries get". Upon thinking about this, (after head butting Andy and stating that "WORRIES ARE GOOD, WORRIES GET THINGS DONE.") I have come to the conclusion that he may have a point. The more you think about something you're worried about, the more "what if's" you come up with. Worrying neither mends, corrects or changes a situation - all it's good for is amplifying. Andy is one of those quietly efficiently people who gets everything done whilst seemingly making no effort at all. For example, despite regularly discussing holepunch related incidents and other things that affect general society with him in English, while I write 3 lines, he, whilst taking part fully in the conversation, writes 2 pages. I am very jealous of this skill as it is something I most definitely lack.

Upon looking up worrying quotes on the internet (hi, I'm a nerd), I came across this one, which was my favourite: "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."  ~ Mark Twain. It is true that we play out every possible scenario in our heads when very few of them actually happen.
Going back to the Italiano topic, my friend today remarked "I'm pretty sure my Italiano lives miles from everyone else, but she's got a turtle so it's OK." Greater words of wisdom I have never heard.